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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Ana Fabrega, co-creator of ‘Los Espookys’

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re looking back on some of our favorite Spooky season interviews from across the twenty-five years we’ve been doing Bullseye. Ana Fabrega is a comedian, actor, writer, and co-creator of the show Los Espookys. In 2022, Ana joined us to talk about the show after it had just wrapped its second and final season.

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0:00.0

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0:15.6

Hey, gang, it's Jesse. We're about to go into another episode of Bullseye, but first, I wanted to tell you about something

0:21.4

really exciting. We are ringing in 25 years of Bullseye all the way through this fall.

0:29.2

25 years. I started this show when I was 19 years old. Don't do the math. What does that mean?

0:36.3

Well, we have a whole month of special shows,

0:39.6

new and old, and also other cool stuff. So earlier this month, I did 25 interviews in a row

0:47.2

live on video. You can watch me talking with Tony Hale and Lisa Loeb and Elvis Mitchell and Bob

0:53.9

Odenkirk and Patton Oswald and 20 other people,

0:57.1

again, in a row, on the Bullseye YouTube page. We're also going on the road. November 1st will be

1:04.9

at the Cumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz. I'll talk with Adam Scott, Boots Riley, and Glenn

1:10.4

Washington will have comedy from

1:12.1

Scott Simpson and music from the Merman. Then on Saturday, November 15th, we have a huge show at the

1:20.3

pit theater in New York City, which is the first place I ever did a live version of this show.

1:26.1

I will have the great Tony Shalub who has a new food show on

1:30.2

television, Chad Abumrod from Radio Lab, who has a great new podcast about Felacuti, and H. John

1:37.0

Benjamin from Archer and Bob's Burgers. Plus, we'll have stand-up comedy from Josh Gondelman

1:42.6

and music from Kristen Anderson Lopez and

1:45.1

Bobby Lopez, the latter of whom is an egot. He got every award you can get in show business.

1:52.7

It's going to be great. That's at the pit in New York, November 15th. I hope that you'll celebrate

1:57.6

all that stuff with us. Go to maximumfund.org slash events to find out more.

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